Arturo Soto was born in 1981 in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. He has published the photobooks In the Heat (2018) and A Certain Logic of Expectations (2021). Soto holds a PhD in Fine Art from the University of Oxford, an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York, and an MA in Art History from University College London. He curated the exhibition Foreign Correspondence at the Architectural Association and took part in the first edition of Forecast Platform at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
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The Candid Frame #575 - Vanessa Charlot
Vanessa Charlot is an award-winning photojournalist/ documentary photographer, filmmaker, lecturer, and curator. Her work focuses on the intersectionality of race, spirituality, economics, and sexual/gender expression. She shoots primarily in black and white to disrupt compositional hierarchy and explore the immutability of the collective human experience.
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Photo: Chuck Anerino
The Candid Frame #405 - Chuck Anerino
Chuck Anerino is a photographer whose work revolves around his family. Practicing a style described as family documentary, Anerino uses the sensibility of a documentary photographer to capture lives of his family, particularly his young boys.
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Photo:lionel brient
Light & Dark Contrast: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this video, Ibarionex talks about the importance of light and dark contrast relative to the subject and the background. Especially important in black and white photography, this awareness of tonality can help to define the subject and create important separation between various elements within the frame.
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photo: irq506
Seeing in B&W: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this video, Ibarionex discusses how to evaluate a scene with the intention of creating a black and white photograph. He discusses the importance of evaluating a scene for brightness, contrast and pattern to help shape the photograph.
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The Candid Frame #288 - Gary Wagner
The beauty of the landscape is experienced in a unique and beautiful way when it is captured as a black and white photograph. Without the presence of color, the natural world is revealed using a very personal point of view, that of the photographer.. Shades of gray reveal the subtle nuances that are not immediately obvious when we see the world in full color.
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The Candid Frame #263 - Christopher Cushman
Christopher Cushman was born and raised in Detroit Michigan. Growing up in Detroit in the 60's and 70's gave him a unique perspective on people, which is central to and has informed his work to this day. He received his degree in Design and Illustration from Ferris State University. He began his career in photography during the 80's attracted to portraiture as a means to understand the human condition.
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photo: Nancy Lehrer
The Candid Frame #262 - Nancy Lehrer
Nancy Lehrer sets out to capture daily life and interactions. These life events are sometimes celebratory but more often commonplace. They are made up of simple conversations and actions – calling out from a balcony, telling a secret, praying, or just engaging with the neighbors on a warm afternoon. She is an observer, seeking to find and record a bit of culture and community.
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photo: Kevin Mullins
The Candid Frame #253 - Kevin Mullins
Kevin Mullins is a Wiltshire wedding photographer who practices a black and white documentary photography style. Since 2007, he has developed a successful business based on a clear vision of his personal approach to photography. He is busy photographing weddings in the United Kingdom and abroad.
Kevin’s photography has earned him numerous awards including honors from The International Society of Professional Wedding Photographers (ISPWP), Society of Wedding Portrait Photographers and the Artistic Guild of Wedding Photojournalist Association. He is also an in-demand speaker as well as conducts workshops on wedding photojournalism.
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photo: Ralph Gibson
The Candid Frame #252 - Ralph Gibson
Ralph Gibson is a photographer whose high-contrast images are recognized for their exploration of the geometric forms and the human gesture. He apprenticed with Dorothea Lange and Robert Frank, but he has created his own singular vision which often moves beyond the traditions of documentary and portraiture.
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Black and White Conversion #3 - Macphun Tonality Pro
For this continuing series on black and white conversions, we share a demonstration of Macphun Tonality Pro. Starting in Adobe Lightroom, we walk you through the process of taking a flat color file and converting it into a high contrast black and white photograph.
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photo: Ibarionex
Black and White Conversion #2 - Silver Efex Pro II
In the second in a series of videos, Ibarionex walks you through a black and white conversion using Adobe Lightroom and Silver Efex Pro II. In this video, he demonstrates how he processes a color image in Lightroom in preparation for editing the image in the b&w plug-in.
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photo: Chris Leskovsek
Seeing in Black and White: Images from the Flickr Pool
In the latest TCF YouTube video, we talk about images that are unique and strong because they are black and white. We examine how images based on tonality, shape, form, line and gesture gain their impact when seen as a monochrome image.
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photo: Ibarionex
Black and White Conversion #1 - Adobe Lightroom
Spurred by questions from viewers of the TCF YouTube Channel, we are introducing a series of videos that walk through the different ways that Ibarionex converts his color photographs into black and white photographs. This videos will discuss his approach begin with Adobe Lightroom and in subsequent videos will include the use of several third-party plug-ins.
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photo: Ibarionex
Making the Most of a Bad Day of Street Photography
It’s inevitable. There will be those days that despite, my eagerness, excitement and abundance of high-tech gear that I will have a day of street photography where I come home with nothing. Nada. Zilch. Strike out.
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photo: Kevin Mullins
Photographing a Birth - TCF YouTube Interview w/ Kevin Mullins
We speak with photographer, Kevin Mullins who used his storytelling skills as wedding photographer to photograph the birth of a client's daughter. Using his visual narrative skills, he chronicles the the time leading to the birth and the emotional moments afterwards.
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